Re: [coders] Quick Python question : Named parameter replacement

[Michael (Micksa) Slade]

Andre Pang wrote: On 18/09/2006, at 9:04 PM, Matthew Hannigan wrote: I think dynamic typing's actually a total cop-out.  There is exactly one sceneario where dynamic typing is necessary and useful, which is when you are loading unknown code at run-time (e.g. plugins) and you have no idea what that code could potentially do.  Dynamic typing is useful there since you're actually doing type-checking of the code you're loading and ensuring that it's at least of the correct type[1]. Okay, I'm probably jumping into this at totally the wrong time, but hell, I doubt I could reduce the S/N ratio of this list with what's been going on :) So I read that there comment and my first reaction was that i was offended :) I love perl.  And if I had/took the time to learn python or ruby, I'm sure I would love them too (maybe slightly less, but let's not go there).  Without dynamic typing I doubt these languages would be as flexible as they are. So anyway I can't simple argue that you're wrong because I'm offended :)   So I thought about it and I realised, dynamic typing can be seen coneptually as a form of object polymorphism. Discuss ;) Mick.

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